Envelope



H. C. COX

ENVELOPE April 22, 1930.

Filed Sept. 25, 1.928

INVENTOR #[NRY C. 60x.

Patented Apr. 22, 93 l U N I TE HENRY C. Cox, or KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK, Assrenon T0 CCLUMBIA PHONQGRAPH COMPA Y, mo or BBIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK ENVELOPE Application filed'september 25, 1928. Se'ria1 No. 308,155.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in containers or envelopes for disc phonograph records.

An object of the invention is to provide a package or carry home envelope which will also serve as a filing or storage envelope.

An additionalobjectis to provide a carry home or package envelope which may be readily converted into an envelopefor use in housing or storing the record when the latter is filed or otherwise not in use. j

A moresp'ecific object is to provide a carry home envelope which is constructed and perforated or marked or weakened in a particular manner and along definite lines, in order that it may be easily torn or out along its perfo-' rated, marked or weakened lines, and con verted into a storage envelope of usual appearance. 1

With the foregoing and other obj'ccts'in view, as will become more apparent as the description proc'eeds,the invention consists in certain features vof construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application I r Fig. 1 is a face View of an envelope convention i V Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalview on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a face View of the upper portion of a different envelope having the invention applied thereto; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4- 1 of'Fig. 3. I

Referring in detail to the drawing, and particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 thereof, the en velope is shown as comprisinga body portion 5 and anupper or closure portion 6 including a flap 7 formed integral with the back 8- of the envelope. This flap adapted to be turned over the upper edge of the front wall 8 of the envelope, as clearly shown. The side edges of the envelope are of course sealed and the bottom is sealed as by the flap 9.

Since the walls 8 and S are not secured at their upper edges, this being the entrance to theenvelope, flap 7 is used to close the envelope during transportation. 4 I

This flap may be sealed closed or, as shown in the drawing, the flap may carry abutton 10 having a string 11 secured thereto and adapted to be wound around a similar button 12 secured to the front wall 8 of the envelope. 9

The envelope, as just'described, is designed for the purpose of carrying articles and in the present instance, a disc phonograph record indicated at 13. Both the front and rear walls 8 and 8 respectively of the envelope, are perforated along the line l l'which it will be noted, is below the button 12. Line 14 preferably, although not necessarily, dips envelope along the perforated line 14 in order to sever the upper portion from the lower. portion thereof.- On this being done, the lower or body portion 5 has the appearance of the usual record envelope and is cut away as shown by the dip 15 whereby the upper edge of the record will project slightly to facilitate the removal of the record'from the envelope. 7

To enable the user to read the usual label on the record at the center thereof, I have perforated the Walls 8 and 8 along the line 16. When this central portion of the envelope is removed, the record label is exposed and the title of the record, name of the composer and so forth may be read without removing the record from the'envelope.

Figs. 3 and 4 showthe upper portion of anchor common carrier home type of envelopeincludes two handle portions 17 and 18, one of which, 18, passes through a slot in a closing flap 19 of the envelope.

' The envelope shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is perforated along the line 14,,and provided with. v

a dip 15 as in the figures first described, and for alike purpose. 7

The body portion 5 of my improved envelope is of such-width as to snugly receive a record in the mannerin which the record is the dimensions of the envelope have been described with reference to the diameter .of'a

record since records ameters. I I

While I have chosen to illustrate the invention by showing a perforated line at 14, it is are made in various dito be imderstood that this line may simply be indicated or the envelope may be weakened at this point other than by perforating it or any other arrangement for accomplishing the purpose may be utilized. When the-line is simply indicated the envelope is preferably cut as by a pair of scissors, a knife or the'like.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing. it will be noted that I have provided an envelope which serves two purposes. WVhen a record is purchased, the dealer merely inserts the record into a carry home envelope, and when the customer reaches home, it isbut necessary for him to tear the envelope alongthe line 1% and to remove the center disc portions by tearing along the line 16, in order that he may have a storage envelope of the usual design. 7

It is pointedout that the present practice provides for the shipping to the dealer of a disc phonograph record in an envelope the same in construction and appearance as the body or bottom portion 5 of the envelope illus' trated. lVhen the dealer sells the record, he must package it, and it is common practice for him to insert the record and envelope into a larger carry home envelope. This means that two envelopes go with each record, one of which, the carryhoine envelope,is destroyed by the purchaser, and the other of which forms a permanent storage orhousing enve lope for the record.

According to the present invention, but one envelope goes with the record, and when the purchaser reaches home, by a simple operation heconverts it from a carry home to a storage envelope, the storage envelope saving the record from scratch and preventing its music lines from becoming filled with dust and otherwise protecting the record.

lVhile the invention has been described in detail in its application to the type of envelope illustrated, this particular type of envelope has been selected merely for the purpose of disclosing the application of the invention. It is therefore to be understood that the invention may be applied to types of envelope other than those disclosed, without departing from the spirit ofthe invention or the scope of the appended claims. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is It will be understood that 1. An envelope for disc phonograph records, the same being of a width approximately equal to the diameter of a record and being of a height greater than the diameter of a record, said envelope being open at one side, a flap for closing side, and said envelope being perforatedalong a line to permit separation of the flap portion from the body portion and along a line to expose a portionof the record.

2. An envelope for disc phonograph records, said envelope comprising a body portion of a size to snugly receive a disc record and permit a portion of one edge thereof to extend beyond the body portion, said envelope including a closure portion secured to said body portion along said edge, and said envelope being perforated along a line corresponding with said edge to permitthe ready separation of said closur portion from said body portion. i r 3. Anenvelope for disc phonograph records, the envelope comprising a body portion open along one edge, said body portion being of a width and height substantially equal to the diameter of record to be placed in said envelope, said envelope-including a closure portion. along the open edge of said body portion, and said envelope being perforated along the said open edge of the body portion.

' a. An envelope as in claim 3, the body portion-having a line of perforations to facilitate the removal of a portion of the envelope to expose the label of a record when placed in the body portion.

5. An envelope for disc phonograph records the same comprising a body portion and a closure portion, said body portion being of a height approximately equal to the diameter of a phonograph record, and said envelope being marked along a line denoting the limit of the body portion and the beginning of the closure portion, whereby when said envelope is severed along said'line the closure portion is removed and storage to fit the record is provided.

6. An envelope for disc phonograph records, said envelope adapted to be used as a package envelope and as a filing envelope and comprising a body portion of a width approximately the same as the diameter of a record, said body portion being of a height approximately equal to said width, and a closure for said. bodyportion for use when theenvelope isused as a'package envelope, said closure adapted to be removed to convert said en velope into a storage envelope.

' Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 18th day of September, A. D. 1928.

' Z HENRY G. COX.

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